Ukraine
In the Donetsk People's Republic, It's Impossible to Tell What's Real
While I was there I got stuck in a school during what may well have been a phoney fire fight, set up by the DNR to make the Ukrainian Army look bad.
Western Sex Tourists Are Still Looking for Love in Ukraine
As war rages in the country's east, marriage agencies are still scamming foreign men in the west.
Portraits and Documentary Photos of the Ongoing War in Ukraine
Wiktoria Wojciechowska's photography records the ongoing effects of the war on Ukrainians, particularly young soldiers, and draws renewed attention to a conflict that seems to have been forgotten.
Photos from the Front Lines of the Ukraine Conflict
Photographer Michela AG Iaccarino spent two years among soldiers and civilians inside the hotly disputed Russia-Ukraine border areas, and this is what she saw.
Why I Pretended to Be a Ukrainian Sex Tourist
Photographer Romain Mader messes with our perception of what's real and what's not in his series of a man on the hunt for a bride in Ukraine.
Photos of Life in Rural Moldova, Europe's Poorest Nation
Åsa Sjöström documents the resilience of childhood in the ex-Soviet nation.
Radioactive Man: Meet the Outlaw Guide Smuggling Tourists Into Chernobyl
Risk, romance and losing your toes inside the exclusion zone of Chernobyl.
A Group of Writers in Brussels Were Discussing How to Deal with Terror While the City Was Under Attack
I got in touch with writer Andrey Kurkov to find out how those guys viewed the Brussels attacks and how the rest of their time together was spent.
The Enduring Legend of the Girl Who Died in Odessa's Catacombs
Investigating the mysterious death of a young woman who wandered into one an underground tunnel and never came out—but lives on as an internet rumour.
Meeting the European Fighters at War in Ukraine
We embedded with a British fighter, Chris "Swampy" Garrett, as his regiment fought in eastern Ukraine.
Inside Poland's Independent Paramilitary Groups
VICE Germany headed to Poland to see how the country is prepared to defend itself from invasion with a homegrown paramilitary resistance.
'The Pianist' Using His Music to Bring Russian and Ukrainian Soldiers Together
Ihor spent four months playing piano for the Russian separatists that held him prisoner.